Univex Mercury
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The 1938 Univex Mercury
was an unusual half frame
35 mm
camera from The Universal Camera Corporation.
It was the first camera with any kind of hot shoe connector, and had a distinctive profile due to a large dome protruding out the top of the main body to accommodate its 1/1000 sec rotary disc shutter
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Univex Mercury
The 1938 Univex Mercury was an unusual half frame 35 mm camera from The Universal Camera Corporation.It was the first camera with any kind of hot shoe connector, and had a distinctive profile due to a large dome protruding out the top of the main body to accommodate its 1/1000 sec rotary disc...
was an unusual half frame
Half-frame camera
A half-frame camera is a camera using a film format at half the intended exposure format. A common variety is the 18x24mm format on regular 135 film. It is the normal exposure format on 35mm movie cameras...
35 mm
135 film
The term 135 was introduced by Kodak in 1934 as a designation for cartridge film wide, specifically for still photography. It quickly grew in popularity, surpassing 120 film by the late 1960s to become the most popular photographic film format...
camera from The Universal Camera Corporation.
It was the first camera with any kind of hot shoe connector, and had a distinctive profile due to a large dome protruding out the top of the main body to accommodate its 1/1000 sec rotary disc shutter
Rotary disc shutter
A rotary disc shutter is a type of shutter. It is notably used in motion picture cameras.Rotary discs are semicircular mirrors which rotate in front of the film gate, and thus expose the film. As the mirror spins it reflects the image onto the ground glass so that it can be viewed by the camera...
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